Joe Samuel Starnes's second novel, Fall Line, published in 2011 by NewSouth Books, was selected for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's list "A Year in Reading: Best of the South.” His first novel, Calling, was published by Jefferson Press in 2005. He has had journalism appear in the New York Times, Washington Post, and various magazines, as well as essays, short stories, and poems in literary journals and books. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Georgia, a master's degree in English from Rutgers University in Newark, and a master's of fine arts in creative nonfiction from Goucher College. A native of Cedartown, Georgia, he now lives in Haddon Township, New Jersey. He edits the alumni magazine for Widener University, and teaches writing at Widener, Rowan University, and Saint Joseph's University. He was awarded a fellowship to the 2006 Sewanee Writers' Conference. For more info, visit www.joesamuelstarnes.com.